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The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

I was shocked when I learned that Statsman, our systems guru for the last 20 years, has decided to retire. It's a decision he's been thinking of making for some time, especially since he complete...

I was shocked when I learned that Statsman, our systems guru for the last 20 years, has decided to retire. It's a decision he's been thinking of making for some time, especially since he complete...

Larry Cassidy, frustrated by a dwindling number of rides, will quit Sydney racing to continue his career in Queensland.The 38-year-old claimed small field sizes combined with a lack of support from...

Well, it's curtains for James Winks in Hong Kong. He'd ridden only 5 winners from 89 rides for the season before deciding enough was enough. The official reason for ending his contract is problems ...

Sensible stuff from Sydney's biggest bookmaker Con Kafataris on the current crisis in NSW racing funding. CVK says: 'The problem in this state has been consultation. They've been consulting with ev...

DESPITE one of Australia's most powerful racehorse owners, Nathan Tinkler, splitting with his head trainer, the Melbourne operation of Mick Price will not be the benefactor of the break-up, reports...